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federer7 · 2 years
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Portrait of Falak, Bachubhai ki wadi, Bombay, 1990
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ortodelmondo · 2 years
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© Ketaki Sheth - Courtesy PHOTOINK
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raghavkumaaar · 1 year
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Indian Photo Studio
Ketaki Sheth visited around 65 photo studios while travelling throughout India between 2015 and 2018, the many of which were in a dismal state of collapse. Numerous photographers have travelled to and written in-depth articles about photo studios in India. Sheth's method of working at the picture studios is anything from conventional because she frequently flouted the rigid rules of taking stiff, mannered images of people with enigmatic looks. Instead, she exhumed legends of former glory and focused viewers' attention on objects and a cast of characters who gracefully submitted to her gaze while using one handheld camera and lens and outdated studio lights when available.
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In my current studio praxis, I'm using the exact same methodology that is used in a traditional Indian photo studio. Sheth's photo studio helped me study the lighting styles and also led me to actually find a backdrop maker in Delhi who made a backdrop for me. Christopher Pinney states that these studio backdrops have long been used as imaginative settings for fantasies, goals, and longings throughout their comparatively brief cultural history. It has both established and upheld graphical conventions while also defying them.
In my understanding the backdrop is first and foremost a location for the exchange of technical expertise, desires and social customs. Whether it takes the form of a fancy 19th-century attic studio, a characterless shopping mall cubicle, a temporary setup in a student admission office, or the portable backdrop of a street peddler portraitist much like Henri Cartier-Bresson's image 'Street Photographer', it is either a replica of current societal norms and traditions or a short-term haven from them, depending on the wish. Even though it is a rapidly declining practice, the sociability and ceremonial character of vintage photographer's studio background traditions seem to have a certain allure even today.
Photoink. “Exhibitions: Photo Studio.” PHOTOINK, October 13, 2018. https://www.photoink.net/exhibitions/photostudio.
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heronstill · 2 years
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Ketaki Sheth, Bombay, 1990
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disease · 2 years
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KETAKI SHETH / “MOTHER AND CHILD” / 2004 [gelatin silver print | 20 × 24″]
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quo-usque-tandem · 2 years
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Best Friends by Ketaki Sheth
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fragrantblossomstwo · 3 years
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Ketaki Sheth.  Portrait of Falak, 1990. 
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unmattata · 6 years
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On Belonging (2015), Ketaki Sheth.
Isolated and reclusive, Siddis are mostly confined to small pockets of villages in the Indian states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat, and the city of Hyderabad (there’s also a sizable population in Pakistan). Descendants of Bantu people of East Africa, Siddi ancestors were largely brought to India as slaves by Arabs as early as the 7th Century, followed by the Portuguese and the British later on. Others were free people who came to India as merchants, sailors and mercenaries before the Portuguese slave trade went into overdrive.
- Neelima Vallangi, “An African-origin ethnic tribe of about 20,000 people has been living in near total obscurity in India for centuries.”
Source: British Journal of Photography
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standingatthefence · 5 years
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Ketaki Sheth | Shilpa and Sheetal in their car, Harrow, Middlesex,1995
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silentseawolf · 7 years
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Nalini Malani in her Mumbai studio by Ketaki Sheth (1987)
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othersociologist · 7 years
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This is the On Belonging exhibition by Indian photographer Ketaki Sheth. In these portraits she focuses on the Sidi, the 70,000 descendants of traders, slaves and sailors who long ago settled in India. The photographer focuses especially on the romantic and spiritual lives of Sidi women.  Photo: The Other Sociologist.
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philamuseum · 3 years
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Happy National Best Friends Day! Today honors those special people we can always count on. Whether you’ve known them your entire life or only recently, a best friend makes tough times bearable and fun times memorable.
"Best Friends," 2008, by Ketaki Sheth. "Tea for Two," around 1926, by Nicholas Vasilieff. "Two Boys on a Log (The Little Boat)," 1884, by Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt. "Three Friends (Three Girls)," around 1944–45, by William Henry Johnson.
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Starlets in the Green Room, Bombay, Ketaki Sheth, 1989, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs
This horizontal format, black and white photograph documents an unpolished dressing room interior. One girl primps in front of a large mirror, while another watches from behind her. The lines of the electrical wire that draw-up the composition are deli... Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jose M. Soriano Photograph by Ketaki Sheth © Ketaki Sheth 2020 Size: 30.48 x 44.45 cm (12 x 17 1/2 in.) Medium: Gelatin silver print
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/317310
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Portrait of Falak, Bachubhai ki wadi, Mumbai, 1990 
© Ketaki Sheth
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dmasonwest · 6 years
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Child Performer. Ketaki Sheth. Photograph, Chowpatty, 1989. #childperformer #ketakisheth #chowpatty #India https://www.instagram.com/p/BnaS59ghXfl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jr785l2h6eo2
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southasiaphot11 · 3 years
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Ketaki Sheth. “Sidi Girl, Pirubhai Dargah, Baroda.” 2006.
This image was taken by a photographer who photographed in Bombay focusing on the poverty, population, and pollution of the city. In this image we see a young girl hold her hands up together, and around her is some sort of building structure. 
https://www.saffronart.com/artists/ketaki-sheth
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